Intel Arc B580 compatibility issues

[Bud]

I bought an Intel Arc 580 graphics card as it was relatively strong and with the 12 gigabytes of Video Ram available now, I figured running VR on my computer would be a breeze as I was already doing it with my AMD Radeon graphics card that was from a while ago.

However, I cannot connect up SteamVR with the card and Meta Quest (urrrgggg, ....I hate the app from Meta but still...) is having an issue that was, well, less of a pain to connect beforehand.

Is there any help, any help at all or any plans with allowing the Intel graphics cards to start working with the SteamVR setup or is there any workarounds that I could learn to set this up with?

I'm generally wishing to continue to use Steam and I was truly hoping that VR would be somewhat more stable with the newer graphics card...but so far, it is not.

Please help the slew of newer Intel Arc cardholders as we truly didn't know that a card that 'should' work, 'doesn't' work for Steam and VR access.

[Bob Loblaw]

Originally posted by Bud:

more stable

For future reference, maximum stability is achieved by consulting the Steam Hardware Survey results and buying the hardware the highest representation. Intel, amidst their management shake-up, is now cancelling their planned GPUs - this is a sign that ongoing driver support for your intel GPU may disappear.

[Bud]

Originally posted by Bob Loblaw:

Originally posted by Bud:

more stable

For future reference, maximum stability is achieved by consulting the Steam Hardware Survey results and buying the hardware the highest representation. Intel, amidst their management shake-up, is now cancelling their planned GPUs - this is a sign that ongoing driver support for your intel GPU may disappear.

Source please? I couldn't imagine that Intel would flat out give up on producing future Graphics cards as they nearly are doing extremely well with the current Arc cards.

Why 'Burn down your house due to having a few weeds in the backyard" ideology with my mode of thinking? Why would Intel call it quits with the GPU marketplace as Intel hasn't truly been known for anything great in a long while and Intel is sorta not doing so well in the graphics department and is more working with Taiwan's TSMC company than to work toward their own chipline recently.

[Bud]

....https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/intel-isn-t-giving-desktop-130926024.html

I found this to show of the contrary but I truly would like to read where your source is located at and the articles' written about Intel giving up on the graphics portion of PC-ware.

[Verdict]

Originally posted by Bud:

....https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/intel-isn-t-giving-desktop-130926024.html

I found this to show of the contrary but I truly would like to read where your source is located at and the articles' written about Intel giving up on the graphics portion of PC-ware.

No one said give up he said cancel planned products...

https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/intels-rumored-high-end-battlemage-gpus-have-been-cancelled-is-it-time-to-worry-about-gpu-competition

[orbatos]

Originally posted by Bud:

....https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/intel-isn-t-giving-desktop-130926024.html

I found this to show of the contrary but I truly would like to read where your source is located at and the articles' written about Intel giving up on the graphics portion of PC-ware.

This is not about cancelling the development and sale of discrete Xe based GPUs, it's about postponing development on higher end cards while they concentrate on not screwing up the the upcoming generation of CPUs with modernized integrated versions of the Xe GPU design.

It's not impossible in the current market that they could can discrete Xe GPUs, but it is unlikely. Part of the reason is what they slipped into the initial designs, hardware AV1 and lots of ram. These things are all over the place for hardware encoding of streaming content *and* LLM training and execution. While Nvidia has the performance crown their hardware is unobtainium and priced that way while Intel is readily accessible for cheap.

TLDR, Battlemage is getting better more slowly than we would like, but consider it a good thing they seem to have a roadmap that doesn't rely on quarterly results to determine the future of massive hardware investments, because that royally ****ed them multiple times recently.

[CyNinja]

Originally posted by Bob Loblaw:

Originally posted by Bud:

more stable

For future reference, maximum stability is achieved by consulting the Steam Hardware Survey results and buying the hardware the highest representation. Intel, amidst their management shake-up, is now cancelling their planned GPUs - this is a sign that ongoing driver support for your intel GPU may disappear.

The reports from intel are that they may be cancelling the higher end Battlemage cards but are still planning to release their celestial cards which should be closer to the 4070/5070 in performance for a fraction of the cost. There is not words from intel mentioning that they are scrapping the GPU side of the business, I for one am excited for more competition in the market.

It would be nice to upgrade from my 3070 TI without spending $1000 USD

[grzegorz77]

"If it is so good, why is it so bad?"

@Bud:
The problem with support lies with the Intel drivers, at least that's how it looked a few months ago. So it is to them that you must go with your question.
Source? You have to look for it yourself, I don't remember anymore.

Bob has given you the best advice in the world.
You bought what you chose, the condition is what it is.